The Mercer County Juvenile Advisory Council

About MCJAC

HISTORY

In October of 1986, a two-year study called The Mercer Adolescent Project came to an end. The Mercer Adolescent Project was a study of Mercer County youths ages 10 through 17 and the public serrvices and programs that were provided to them and their families. MAP was a collaboration between the Office of Education and Regional Programming at Western Psychiatric Institute in Pittsburgh and many local officials and Human Service agencies. This study, which was funded by the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency and the Budd Fund, brought to the surface the over all lack of cooperation among agencies as well as a need to prevent high risk youths from falling through the cracks in our Human Service system.

After the conclusion of MAP, Judge Acker announced that a commission would be created through the Juvenile Court Judges Commission to continue the work that MAP had started. The main focus of the new commission would include the promotion of interagency cooperation, staff development, and advocacy for at risk children in Mercer County.Today, 21 years later, the Mercer County Juvenile Advisory Council continues to focus on the same mission.

2008 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Attorney Chester B. Scholl, Jr., Chairman
Mr. Tom Pryts, Vice Chairman
Attorney Matthew Donnelly, Sec./Treas.
Mrs. Claudia Leyde
Dr. Thomas R. Hawkins
Mr. Allen Morgan
Mr. Art Davis
Mrs. Joyce Blackwell
Attorney Dionis Blauser
Attorney Richard Barletta

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